Binder cross-tongue and truck attachment.



PATENTBD MAY 22 1906.

C. G, NORMAN. BINDER GROSS TONGUE AND TRUCK ATTAOHMBNTT APPLIOATIDN FILED JUNE 3, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT orsron".

CHARLES (J. NORMAN, OF ABILENE, KANSAS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. May 22, 1906-.

Application filed June 3,1905. Serial No. 263,557.

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. NORMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Abilene, in the county of Dickinson and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Binder Cross-Tongue and Truck Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to binder cross-tongue and truck attachments, and has for its objects the following: the production of a leading or pilot truck for agricultural machines, particularly reapers and binders, that will permit the working of two horses on each side of the tongue and the use of the simplest kind of eveners and doubletrees, giving toeach horse perfect freedom without the grainhorse tramping grain or the outside horse tramping bundles, the means for attaching the truck to the binder being of special and unique arrangement.

A further object is the arrangement of the truck so that it does not project farther than the binder, thus calling for a widergate or bridge than the ordinary binder, and also my invention permits turning completely around without the drive-wheel moving forward, thereby enabling perfectly square corners to be made.

A still further object of my invention is to provide the truck with a flanged cone wheel or wheels which will prevent any side slipping of the truck as it is drawn along and insure the progress of the machine in a perfectly di rect line as desired.

I accomplish the objects set forth by constructing and associating the parts substantially as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 represents a top plan view of my invention as applied to an agricultural machine. Fig. 2 represents a front fragmentary View, partly in section, showing the connection of the king-bolt with the cross-tongue and the bolster of the truck. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary side view, partly sectional, showing one manner of connecting the king-bolt and cross-tongue and also illustrating the pivoted evener-bar clip.

Like letters are used to refer to the same parts throughout.

Considering the drawings, the letter A marks a portion of the frame of an agricul tural machinefor example, a reaper and binder.

' B designates the regular tongue of the binder cut off, as shown, usually having the metal end piece C, to be again mentioned.

The cross-tongue is referred to by letter D and may be provided with a metal end piece E, which, like end piece C of the abbreviated tongue B, is pivotally connected with the lugplate F by pivot-bolts G and H. The plate F is secured to the frame A of the binder. It is thought to be now clear that as the two tongues B and D are bolted fast together by bolts J they move together pivotally up or down without moving the binder, which moves with them when they are swung in a horizontal plane.

Letter K marks the bolster of the truck, and L is a rounded metal block bolted upon the bolster, and on block L rests the plate M, that is secured to the under side of the crosstongue at its outer extremity. It will be noted that the offlce of plate M is to retain the king-bolt N within the cavity d near the end of the crosstongue, and it is also shown that the orifice m through plate M is slightly larger than the king-bolt, allowing it movement therein in every way. The king-bolt passes through block L, as shown.

The wheels of the truck are designated by the letter 0. Both maybe coneshap ed, with flanges arranged to cut into the earth and prevent side slipping. I believe it to be within the scope of my invention to use one cone-wheel O and one wheel of ordinary form or to form either wheel with a flange less pronounced than those illustrated.

P designates the journals of the truck, upon which the wheels are secured and revoluble'.

The letter Q refers to a pivot-bolt passing through the cross-tongue D near its end, the reinforce-block B being merely to strengthen the connection of bolt and cross-tongue as the bolt passes near the edge of the tongue. Bolt Q forms the pivot of the clip or jaw S, and T is a bolt passing vertically through the free end of the clip S.

The letter U refers to the doubletrees, V to the swingletrees oined to the doubletrees by the clips W, all of the simplest character.

Letter X marks the tongue of the truck, and Y the adjustable diverging braces acting as additional connecting means between the tongue X and the bolster K of the truck.

The letter Z designates the evener-bar to which the doubletrees U are connected, and the evener is pivotally secured in the clip S by the bolt T, already mentioned.

It is thought to be now clear that each horse has freedom of movement and that the same freedomis afforded all of them together.

I am aware that pilot or lead trucks have been used in connection with agricultural machines, and I do not claim that feature broadly.

What I claim is p 1. In a binder cross-tongue and truck attachment, the combination with an abbreviated tongue, of a cross-tongue extending diagonally across the said abbreviated tongue and rigidly secured thereto, a truck located at the outer end of the said cross-tongue, a king-bolt connecting the said cross-tongue and truck pivotally, a clip pivotally connected with the said cross-tongue, and draft devices pivotally connected with said clip whereby forward draft may be exerted upon the said cross-tongue, substantially as described.

2. In a binder cross-tongue and truck attachment, the combination with an abbreviated tongue, of a cross-tongue extending diagonally across the said abbreviated tongue and rigidly secured thereto, a truck provided CHARLES C. NORMAN.

Witnesses:

L. I. WALTON, M. L. BARBER. 

